Purse-frame



(No Model.) A. GOERTZ. PURSE FRAME.

No. 463,283. Patented June 2, 1891.

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BY MQWAWY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST GOERTZ, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY,

PU RSE FRAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters TPatent No. 453,283, dated June 2, 1891.

Application filed February 18, 1891. Serial No. 381,819. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUST GOERTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Purse-Frames; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in purse-frames or similar frames illustrated in an application contemporaneous herewith,the serial number of which is381,818, in which the frame is made up of pivotallysecured plates or sections adapted to be spread and folded in the manner of lazy-tongs; and the invention is designed to provide an improved frame having end tips or other means to which the mouth of the bag can be directly sewed or secured by means of hooks or rings arranged in the upper part of the bag.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which similar letters of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in each of the several views, Figure 1 represents my improved purse-frame in side elevation provided with myimproved means for sewing or otherwise attaching the mouth of a knitted or other bag thereto. Fig. 2 is a top view of the frame when open, showing the plates or sections comprising the frame in their open relation to each other. Fig. 3 is a side view of part of the frame, illustrating the arrangement and construction of the pivoted sections shown in Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the frame-sections employed. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of one of the frame-sections provided with a perforated fastening-plate or end tip riveted thereto, and Fig. 7 is a View of said end tip.

In said views, A designates my improved purse-frame for closing the mouth of the bag, and it consists, essentially, of the sections a and CL, which are pivot-ally connected with each other at different points by means of pins, rivets, or screws Z). The upper plates or sections a, as will be seen more especially from Figs. 3 and 4, are provided with plain or rounded ends and with the perforations a while the plates or sections a, as will be seen from said Fig. 3 and from Fig. 5, formed with downwardly-projecting end tips a each provided with a perforation or hole a therein. Said tips a are preferablyformed integral with the lower ends of said plates a; but, if desirable, said tips can be made in the form of a plate, as shown in Fig. 7, being provided with two perforations a and a whereby said plate can be secured by means of pins or rivets c to the end of the plate a. In this manner I have secured a novel means to which the mouth of a bag can be sewed, or can be attached by means of hooks or rings secured around the mouth of the bag or where the bag isknitted. The upper strands of the knitted purse can be passeddirectly through the perforation in the end tips, and the bag portion of the purse is thereby firmly secured to the lower portion of the frame.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim is 1. A purse-frame comprising therein a system of combined plates or sections a and a, adapted to be spread and folded in the manner of lazy-tongs, said sections Ct being provided at their lower ends with perforated end tips for securing the mouth of a bag thereto, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A purse-frame comprising therein a system of combined plates or sections a and a, adapted to be spread and folded in the manner of lazy-tongs, said sections a being provided with plates at their lower ends, secured thereto by means of pins or rivets and provided with perforations a for securing the mouth of a bag thereto, as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of February, 1891.

AUGUST GOERTZ.

Witnesses:

M. 11. CAMFIELD, J r., FREDK. (J. FRAENTZEL. 

